THIS was not a good week to be a Dutch manager in English football as Frank de Boer lost his post at Crystal Palace and Ronald Koeman’s recent problems with Everton continued with large defeats at home and abroad.

IT WAS a world away from the Stade de Nice, where a shattered, haunted figure made a very awkward resignation speech in the wake of England’s humiliating 2-1 defeat by Iceland at Euro 2016, just 15 months ago.